Abstract:Virtualization is heavily used in modern private and public data centers. By enabling the consolidation of many virtual machines (VMs) in a physical server, virtualization blurs the frontier between networking and system. We have investigated in a previous work the various prices due to virtualization when a packet is moved from one VM to the physical NIC, by focusing on a pure UDP scenario and multiple competing VMs. We estimated how the inter-packet delay moves away from the optimal point as the number of VM… Show more
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